Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 176 Investigation of Household Registration
After Tan Shihuai was executed, the officials of the DPRK and China were naturally busy again. Many young scholars were arranged to Liangzhou to stabilize the situation in Liangzhou. Most of these young officials performed well in the villages. Officials with outstanding political achievements, including Tian Feng, who became the county magistrate of Guzang County, and became the youngest county magistrate during the Jianning period!

But Zheng Xuan was more controversial. The courtiers wanted him to return to the temple and take over as Jiuqing. Zheng Xuan didn't dare to accept the honor of being worshiped by the little fat man as governor of Liangzhou because of his meritorious service in the city. The little fat man sent people to appoint him three times, and Zheng Xuan just took office.

As a great Confucian, he is better at studying and lecturing, but he is relatively weak in governing political affairs, but he is magnanimous and has stayed in Liangzhou for a long time. He also studied as a teacher in Manan County in Liangzhou before. Therefore, in such a Under the turbulent situation, he is the most suitable candidate. The little fat man thinks that he can stabilize the situation in Liangzhou as quickly as possible.

As for the opening of canals for water transport proposed by Wen Renxi, a plan was gradually drawn up and started to be implemented. Naturally, Yangzhou was the first, because Wang Fu himself opened up many channels in Yangzhou to promote water conservancy irrigation. The first large-scale canal in China is from Danyang to Lujiang River, Geyang to Runan, so that the Central Plains can be connected with Jiangdong.

Whether it is transporting manpower or food, it is extremely convenient.

For this matter, Wang Fu is also very concerned. He governed Yangzhou for a year and worked day and night. Governing Yangzhou, among them, there are many prefects who have just been established, and county magistrates who have just established their crowns. These young officials are more energetic than before, and less old-fashioned.

They are also extremely fanatical in doing things!
In more than a year, Wang Fu actually reclaimed nearly 80 hectares of farmland in Yangzhou. Yangzhou's original household registration records had a total population of 4303 million, of which Jiujiang County had a population of 43, Danyang County had a population of 63, and Lujiang County had a population of 43. , Kuaiji County has a population of 48, Wu County has a population of 70, and Yuzhang has a population of 160 million.

At the end of the year, Wang Fuyu personally led young officials from all over the country to start household registration and visits and investigations. It can be said that he personally visited every corner of Yangzhou, but the final result was a population of 620 million, an increase of more than 200 million out of thin air. , in addition to the population of mountain people, more of them are the hidden population of powerful and powerful families from all over the country, who secretly hide tribal families!

What they ushered in was Wang Fu's butcher knife. Wang Fu beheaded dozens of powerful families on the charge of violating the Han law. According to the number of registered households, Wang Fu will distribute cultivated land with them, carry out reclamation, and build water conservancy in many areas, and the money is all taken from the hands of powerful families!
In less than a year, Yangzhou's grain production has reached the scale of wealthy counties like Qingzhou and Xuzhou!
Jizhou, which has the highest grain production, is about to be overtaken by Yangzhou. If it hadn't been for the emperor's great Xingmin village in recent years to improve agriculture and mulberry, Yangzhou's current grain production can surpass Jizhou!All the officials were taken aback by Yangzhou's performance, and they went to Yangzhou to investigate. Sure enough, what they saw was farmland everywhere, the people lived and worked in peace, there were no robbers on the road, and the officials were busy.

And the little fat man was full of praise for Wang Fu, and asked him to enter Luoyang to receive the reward!

Wang Fu just replied, "Yangzhou is not prosperous yet, and I don't want to see the king." So he stayed in Yangzhou, and the little fat man didn't urge him. The rapid development of Yangzhou surprised the prefects of all states, especially Jizhou and Xuzhou. , Qingzhou, Yanzhou, these rich and big states, since Mintun, they are all complacent, and now they are almost surpassed by Yangzhou, a barbaric place, and they are also dissatisfied in their hearts!
There is a trend of farming and mulberry again in various places. The eunuchs have built water conservancy to persuade agriculture and mulberry. Some eunuchs also imitated the appearance of Wangfu, ordering the powerful to hand over the hidden tenant slaves, or directly inquire and investigate. Household slaves and tenants do not have to pay taxes when they are hidden, but now that they are exposed, it is unknown how much taxes have been increased. Most of these taxes are directly used to promote water conservancy.

Formed a virtuous circle.

During the court meeting, I heard that people attacked the emperor and suggested: "Nowadays, most of the big families hide their slaves and private men to avoid taxes. The roster, governing politics by observation!" As soon as these words came out, big families like the Xun family and the Yuan family suddenly had a headache, but there was nothing they could do, the current emperor was not something they could resist.

Dahan started the first nationwide household registration book during the Jianning period.

At the end of the sixth year of Jianning, there was no result.

The total population of the country is 470 million. The number of households registered by Dahan in the first year of Yongxing was 320 million, in the fourth year of Yanguang it was 860 million, and in the fifth year of Yonghe it was 9105 million The number of household registrations in the six years of Jianning has completely surpassed the previous ones and reached the peak. The little fat man is extremely happy. In the court meeting, he also praised the political achievements of San Gong and many officials.

Of course, officials of the imperial party like Cao Song put the credit on the head of the emperor. If it weren't for the emperor's sage, how could there be such a world of great rule today?
This is true. Since the Son of Heaven came to power, people in various places have rarely starved to death. There are sufficient granaries, and the household registration has naturally increased explosively. Coupled with the hidden household registrations of the tyrants, this has resulted in this incredible achievement of the Son of Heaven. Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, etc., under the Mintun policy, the grain production has been several times that of before!
Chidao even connects the entire Central Plains region and drives the development of the entire Central Plains region.

Yangzhou is thriving under Wang Fu's governance, but at present, only Jingzhou, Liangzhou, Yizhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou still need to develop.

Even so, the world of Dahan is showing a prosperous situation. In the private schools in various places, the sound of young children reading can be heard loudly, and the common people have surplus food at home, and the ever-decreasing taxes make their faces filled with smiles. Shanyue and the defeat of Xianbei made the majesty of the imperial court deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone felt that a prosperous age like Wenjing seemed to be coming! !
The most frightening thing is that there are no enemies as powerful as the Huns around this prosperous age.

The only strong enemy is Xianbei, and their leader was publicly beheaded in Luoyang not long ago.

Thinking of the praise in the history books and the admiration of future generations, the officials of the great Han Dynasty suddenly became full of motivation.

(End of this chapter)